Definition of Health

12 August, 2017

«Health - it is the human condition, which is not unique to the absence of disease or infirmity, but a complete physical, mental and social well-being."Since then, it took a long time, but this formulation, as a rule, does not shy away from any one of the specialists dealing with human health.This most often subjected to critical assessment, including for its poor practical applicability, but in return is nothing more universal and generally accepted in this regard has not yet appeared. Continuing analysis of the essential features of health used by different authors, presenters of the program "On the most important" that all their diversity can be distributed to a variety of conceptual models of the definition of health. 1. The medical model of health It involves a definition of health that includes a medical signs and characteristics of health.Health consider the absence of diseases and their symptoms. 2. Biomeditsiiskaya model health Health is viewed as the lack of human organic disorders and subj

ective feelings of ill-health.Attention is focused on the natural biological essence of man, it emphasizes the dominant role of biological regularities in human life and in his health. 3. Biosocial model health The concept of health includes biological and social characteristics that are considered in unity, but at the same time social features prioritized. 4. Value-social model of health Health is an asset for human prerequisite for a full life, the satisfaction of his material and spiritual needs, to participate in work and social life, in economic, scientific, cultural and other activities.This model is most relevant to the definition of health formulated by WHO. draw attention to one fundamental fact.He writes that in the definition of health of some authors treat it as a state, the other as a dynamic process, and some even bypass the question round.The author points out that health is regarded as a state in the earlier definitions of the term.In recent decades, domestic and foreign scholars are increasingly inclined to believe that health is a dynamic process.Therefore consider it appropriate to make the following clarifications from the field of psychology. All psychic phenomena procedural in nature.No mental outside the process.Psychology should display all aspects of mental activity from the notion of process.Category condition is the role of "bridge the gap" between the mental processes and personality traits.Under the condition of the author understands the integral characteristic of mental activity for a certain period of time, which is reflected in the originality of all mental processes.Outside the mental processes correctly emphasizes the Levites, there can be no mental states.In contrast to the state of the mental processes are characterized by pain, neck integrity and stability.Returning to the phenomenon of health, we believe that a more correct position is occupied by those authors who do not try in his interpretation of the absolute involvement in it is only a single category - either state or process.Health is a dynamic state of the individual, the process of preservation and development of the biological, physiological and psychological functions, the optimal capacity for work and social activities at the highest life expectancy. '